Belvidere, May 5, 1857
Dear John,
I wrote to have you come home yesterday and I waited until
up past one this morning thinking you would come home. Oh! do come as soon as you can after you get
this for if you don’t I shall have to give up, for I have done all in my power
for the children and they are sick I tell you, vomiting night and day and Sissy
is burning up with fever all the time .
Do what I will, the Scarlet fever is around but Oh! I hope she has not
got that. Baby seems a little better
this morning but little. Oh! how sick he was yesterday, the little
dear. It must kill him to vomit, he
vomits so hard he is on my knee all the time.
Sis keeps asking when Pa will be at home. She asked many times last night. Oh! says she, Pa is wicked not to come, but I
told her that perhaps you did not get the letter. Oh! come if it is only to relieve me a
little, for I have not had any sleep this three nights. So you may think I am pretty much ___ up.
Bring one or two oranges if you can or figs instead.
I remain your ever fond wife,
Elizabeth
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